Monthly Archives: September 2008

mootools 1.11 to 1.2 upgrade path

Fraught with danger. Thankfully, there are some good resources on migrating to the new release. None completely documents all changes, but then, there are a ton of changes in 1.2.

Conversion from 1.11 to 1.2
Upgrading to MooTools 1.2 - Tips, Tricks, and Backwards Compatibility
MooTools upgrade: From 1.1 to 1.2
digitarald’s all important MooTools 1.1 To [...]

Creating DSLs with Ruby

For ages I wanted to understand how to build DSLs with Ruby. After some Googling, I came up with a bunch of links.

Evaluation Options in Ruby which covers all the ways to eval
Creating DSLs with Ruby is a highly technical article on Ruby and DSL patterns
Ruby DSL Blocks documents what Micah calls the DSL [...]

Fuck. This. Bailout.

No. Seriously, no. This is fucking ridiculous.
As an update, kos at DailyKos is right.

I am now certain that this is all a giveaway to the GOP’s friends on Wall Street and an effort to financially handcuff the next administration. It has little to do with saving the economy. Otherwise, Treasury and White House [...]

Quicksbooks Pro 2006 on Windows Vista 64

While QBP 2006 is apparently unsupported by Intuit (surprise!), it is possible to install it on Windows Vista Home, 64-bit edition. I encountered two problems, with both solutions documented somewhere on a QB support site, but only viewable via the Google page cache. To ensure their availability, I am re-posting the steps here.
During [...]

IE7 backspace sucks

Seriously, who the fuck at Microsoft thought the backspace key should have the dual purposes of erasing the character immediately preceding the cursor and taking you back a page. If you arrive on a page that requires substantial form input and happens to be dynamically generated like, say, nearly every Web page with forms [...]